06/05/2024
Kamau and Otieno are childhood friends. Kamau owns rentals in a posh estate in the city. Otieno drives an elegant Toyota Landcruiser and lives in Kamau’s rentals. Kamau has been of the opinion that owning an expensive car before buying land or building is financial illiteracy. On the other hand, Otieno believes that life is for the living.
Kamau’s analogy has worked and favoured others like him for many years. The likes of Otieno end up frustrated in old age and have nothing to show for their productive years.
One rainy evening, as Kamau is going home from his daily routine, he sees something familiar from the window of the matatu he’s travelling in. He brushes it off and assumes it’s the effects of abusing some prohibited substances in his youth.
The Matatu he's travelling is struggling to go through the flooded road. He sees Otieno’s Land Cruiser pass by as if it was made for flooded roads. Otieno stops immediately. He's seen some of his belongings in the floods going in the opposite direction.
Before he realises it, Kamau’s whole building is flowing in the opposite direction. Kamau sees it, too. It took him 4 years to build the rentals, and he has another 20 years to repay the loan. He's back to zero. He also remembers that his 50x80 plots in Joska have turned into lakes. No one is willing to buy them, not even fish farmers.
Otieno has 50 million in the bank. He'll replace the lost items the following day. Besides that, Kamau's own life hangs in the balance. The Matatu he's travelling in can't handle the pressure of the floods. Otieno will spend the night in an Airbnb and rent another house tomorrow. Kamau is not even sure he'll be alive.
Moral of the story:
Don’t be like Kamau. It’s 2024. The “Don’t buy a car while living in rentals” shenanigans have been exposed. They worked earlier, but not anymore. Make buying a car a priority in 2024—not just any car, but a good car. Life is for the living.
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